Mr. Auerbach is the former North American publicly elected member of the
Board of Directors of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers.

Karl Auerbach was formerly a senior researcher in the Advanced
Internet Architecture group in the Office of the Chief Strategy
Officer at Cisco Systems.

In addition to his technical work, Mr. Auerbach has been an attorney
in California since 1978. He is a member of the Intellectual Property
Section of he California State Bar.

Mr. Auerbach has been named as a Yuen Fellow of Law and Technology at
the California Institute of Technology and Loyola of Los Angeles Law
School. He has also received the Norbert Wiener Award from the
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR).

Mr. Auerbach has been working on Internet and operating system
technology since the early 1970's. He has been a long-time member of
the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Mr. Auerbach founded both Epilogue Technology Corporation and
Empirical Tools and Technologies, Inc. He has been closely involved
with several other startups including Precept Software where in the mid
1990's he architected and implemented IP/TV, a pioneering product for
internet distribution of entertainment grade video over the internet.

He is a co-founder of the Boston Working Group and has been involved
in the issue of Internet governance for several years.

Mr. Auerbach is helping to create a an open voting system. He is on
the Board of Directors of the Open Voting Consortium.

He is also a "Pioneer Member" of the Internet Society.

In his spare time he does backstage work with a professional theatre
company and also is helping to restore a 1923 mainline steam
locomotive.